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Collaboratively imagining the future can bring people closer together in the present

  • Written by Zoë Fowler, Graduate Assistant in Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Collaboratively imagining the future can bring people closer together in the presentImagining a joint future may be the first step in building it.Kateryna Kovarzh/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Warm sun on your face, a gentle salty breeze, the sound of ocean waves. Your friend earnestly suggests surfing lessons, and you both laugh as you imagine the two of you gracelessly tumbling through the water.

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